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Differences in judgment about water-baptism, no bar to communion, or, To communicate with saints,…Differences in judgment about vvater-baptism, no bar to communion, or, To communicate with saints,…
Differences in judgment about water-baptism, no bar to communion, or, To communicate with saints, as saints, proved lawful in answer to a book written by the Baptists, and published by Mr. T.P. and Mr. W.K. entitled, Some serious reflections on that part of Mr. Bunyan's confession of faith, touching church-communion with unbaptized believers : wherein, their objections and arguments are answered, and the doctrine of communion still asserted and vindicated : here is also Mr. Henry's Jesse's judgment in the case, fully declaring the doctrine I have asserted / by John Bunyan.Differences in judgment about vvater-baptism, no bar to communion, or, To communicate with saints, as saints, proved lawful in answer to a book written by the Baptists, and published by Mr. T.P. and Mr. W.K. entituled, Some serious reflections on that part of Mr. Bunyan's confession of faith, touching church-communion with unbaptized believers : wherein, their objections and arguments are answered, and the doctrine of communion still asserted and vindicated : here is also Mr. Henry's Jesse's judgment in the case, fully declaring the doctrine I have asserted / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for John Wilkins, 1673
Differences in Judgment about Water-Baptism no Bar to Communion.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. The Lord, in the Old Testament, expressly commanded no uncircumcised Person should eat the Passover, Exod. 12. 28. and in Ezek. 34. 9. that no stranger, uncircumcised in heart, or uncircumcised in flesh, should enter into his Sanctuary: And had the Lord commanded, that no unbaptized Person should enter into his Churches, it had been clear: And no doubt, Christ was as faithful as a Son in all his House, as Moses was as a Servant; and although there had been like reason, if the Lord had commanded it so ⟨p. 121⟩to be, yet in God's Worship we must not make the likeness of any thing in our reason, but the Will of God, the Ground of Duty; for upon such a Foundation some would build the baptising of Infants, because it would be like unto Circumcision, and so break the Second Commandment, in making the likeness of things of their own contrivance, of force with Institutions in the Worship of God.
Answ. The Lord, in the Old Testament, expresly commanded no uncircumcised Person should eat the Passeover, Exod. 12. 28. and in Ezek. 34. 9. that no stranger, uncircumcised in heart, or uncircumcised in flesh, should enter into his Sanctuary: And had the Lord commanded, that no unbaptized Person should enter into his Churches, it had been clear: And no doubt, Christ was as faithful as a Son in all his House, as Moses was as a Servant; and although there had been like reason, if the Lord had commanded it so ⟨p. 121⟩to be, yet in God's Worship we must not make the likeness of any thing in our reason, but the Will of God, the Ground of Duty; for upon such a Foundation some would build the baptising of Infants, because it would be like unto Circumcision, and so break the Second Commandment, in making the likeness of things of their own contrivance, of force with Institutions in the Worship of God.